How To Create & Collaborate In A Sharing Economy by TeachThought Staff 2015 has been a year ripe with change and watershed transformation, but as we move into 2016 many new trends lurk on the horizon. In a new report, Billee Howard talks about the top 10 emerging trends to look out for in the…
The Collaborative Learning Tools I Use To Motivate Students by Derek von Waldner As many educators know, students often come into a classroom ranging below or above a certain grade level. Even the most experienced of teachers find this disparity challenging. Self-paced and differentiated learning can help strike a balance among student grade levels, but…
Education 3.0 has many facets from technology tools to shifting roles for teachers. But more than anything else, it’s is about students.
These sites, tools, and apps can save teachers time by allowing them to create simple quizzes and collect feedback from students.
After a decade of endless and painful reconciliation between belief and behavior, meeting Wendell Berry was a new sort of marker.
You realize that your PBL unit lacked enough student agency and that your challenge-based learning unit could have data privacy issues.
A defining characteristic of 21st century teaching is that it doesn’t require you to be anything other than acutely attentive to possibility.
A Diagram Of 21st Century Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff The modern learner has to sift through a lot of information. That means higher level thinking skills like analysis and evaluation are necessary just to reduce all the noise and establish the credibility of information. There is also the matter of utility. Evaluating information depends as…
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.
Thank You For Making The TeachThought Podcast #1 In New & Noteworthy! by Terry Heick Not much to say here but thanks for helping to make the TeachThought Podcast relatively successful so far. From the looks of things, we’re #1 in New & Noteworthy. Not sure if our place “first” is simply random and we’re…
Planning For Response For Intervention: What Not To Do by Dan Henderson Ed note: You can read more in Dan’s new book, That’s Special: A Survival Guide To Teaching Special education teachers are often tasked with teaching small groups of four to six students. Response to intervention (RTI) is the terminology used for supporting struggling learners,…
As education seeks to change in the 21st century, there are a few ideas that continue to challenge its progress.